HC Deb 15 March 1995 vol 256 c592W
31. Mrs. Gorman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the most recent advice he has received on global warming; and if he will make a statement.

Sir Paul Beresford

The most recent, and most authoritative advice, is contained in the interim reports produced by the intergovernmental panel on climate change in 1992 and 1994. They confirm the IPCC's previous predictions of an underlying global warming rate of 0.3 deg C per decade during the next century due to greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.